hostage
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The Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office was notified of the hostage crisis shortly before 11 a.m. and deployed drones to scout the area where the workers were taken, LaRue said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
Unfortunately, Medicare Advantage plans also benefit by holding doctors’ and hospitals’ money hostage for months, sometimes not paying at all, for care already provided.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
He tells me it felt like the digital world was holding him hostage.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
You should not be held hostage to other people’s emotional drama or debts.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026
The weekend escape had offered a break from both office and climate, each mile north taking her farther away from the steam heat that had held the area hostage for the last few days.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
“Once he became Middle East envoy and was given responsibility for the hostages, he became one of the most famous people in Israel overnight,” an Israeli journalist who has covered him told me.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
Such films have been funded in part by Sacramento’s business hostages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
His son was among 110 hostages flown home in January, on a plane organised by the Iraqi government.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
Crisis negotiators were able to negotiate the safe surrender of one of the hostages inside the building, Bakersfield Police Sgt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
“I will not say what he calls me. If you and I were the hostages, would he risk his skin for us?”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
On the other hand, John Donvan conceded that there is a limit to living in the past—to hostaging yourself, for instance, to outdated agreements and other generations’ crimes.
From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2012
Q. Have you expressed that view of hostaging to President Bush?
From Time Magazine Archive
In their minds, hostaging means trading -- and trading means talking.
From Time Magazine Archive
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